A little more than a year earlier Jay-Z was caught calling out Nas on The Blueprint's "Takeover." His lyrical spew included the mathematical dis "You said you been in this ten/I've been in it five - ...

2002: By the turn of the new millennium, Brooklyn rapper Jay Z had already begun his ascension from hip-hop to mainstream superstar and business man. His 2002 album The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The ...

Jay-Z will on April 8 release "Blueprint 2.1," featuring highlights from last year's Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam double-CD set "The Blueprint 2: The Gift and the Curse," plus a handful of as-yet-unannounced… ...

XXL celebrates 50 years of hip-hop with this moment: Sept. 8, 2009: The Blueprint 3 was the last album in Jay-Z's Blueprint trilogy, which started with the classic The Blueprint in 2001, and then ...